CCCIII 
December 1892. Bulletino della societá botanica italiana 1892 pag. 452. 
L. Mieheletti: Sulla restaurazione del latino und Prof. G. Tuceimei: La 
lingua scientifica internazionale o restauriamo il latino! Warme Befürwortung 
der Wiedereinführung des Lateinischen als internationale Schriftsprache ins- 
besondere für Italiener ????). 
; Ende 1892. Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh in the Introductory to his 
Flora of West Virginia writes: 
As to nomenclature: I have followed the principle of priority and the double credit 
System, as far as my access to literature would allow.  Omissions in this matter will be 
found to be in direct proportion to my lack of ability to refer. 
?27) Mr. Thiselton Dyer is a very good director of Kew Gardens, but 
that establishment is too extensive now, so that a director can no longer 
work as a specialist. Mr. Dyer is, indeed, as his few publications in this line 
prove, no "working systematist", although he is a systematist and may work 
mueh, and in this respect he has not the authority and experience of Sir 
Joseph Hooker his father-in-law. But being the more independent and unbiased 
in questions of nomenclature, we may hope of him that he will agree with any 
convention of international nomenclature to be concluded next time and to 
remove the:known laxities in nomenclature at Kew. It is no glory for Kew 
to work always only so as they like to do, and to place themselves in oppo- 
sition with other influential botanical people. When the Paris botanical Code 
was established they did not protest against and worked now and then acocor- 
ding to these laws; when A. DC. made the mistake to take 1737 instead of 
1735, which is according to the Paris Code, Mr. Jackson in aecordance with 
Sir Joseph, the late director, took 1735 as the starting point of nomenclature, 
and after I had revised the genera in accordance with Kew since 1735, they 
proposed at once 1753 as starting-point! But that new Kew proposition to 
start with 1753 causes more alterations of plant-names, than 1737; it is a big 
mistake and proof that Kew botanists did not care much for the authors of 
that time. 
As to the renewed Kew rule to cite the author, who put first a species 
name to an accepted genus-name, I must repeat against the motives of Mr. 
Thiselton Dyer that most of the abuses in taking wrong species-names resulted 
from the alteration of genera-names or from the preferring of wrong genera-names 
with insertion of arbitrary new species-names instead of legal old ones. The cause 
mentioned by Sir Joseph Hooker is less frequent. All in all as I proved in 
Chapter 16 of my Rev. gen. pl. this famous Kew rule, the only I heard of 
as to nomenclature, is a disorderly one, and Mr. Thiselton Dyer would promote 
harmony among botanists by removing it at Kew. 
The paper of Sereno Watson, quoted by Mr. Dyer, is reprinted here page 
CCLXI; see also the reply thereto of Dr. N. L. Britton page CCLXLVI. 
??73) Ich erspare mir principiell den Abdruck dieser rein italienisch ge- 
schriebenen Artikel, weil ieh italienisch — so sympathisch es mir persónlich 
ist — nicht als internationale Sprache anerkennen kann. Ich will aber auf 
diese Artikel die Italiener selbst mehr aufmerksam machen, weil sie nur die 
Meinung bestütigen, welche ich in Gesetzesform (cfr. $ 69) vorsehlug. Ich 
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